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Globalization is often thought of as an abstract process that
happens "out there" in the world. But people are ultimately the
driving force of global change, and people have bodies that are
absent from current conversations about globalization. The original
scholarly research and first-person accounts of embodiment in this
volume explore the role of bodies in the flows of people, money,
commodities, and ideas across borders. From Zumba fitness classes
to martial arts to fashion blogs and the meanings of tattooing, the
contributors examine migrating body practices and ideals that
stretch across national boundaries.
Globalization is often thought of as an abstract process that
happens "out there" in the world. But people are ultimately the
driving force of global change, and people have bodies that are
absent from current conversations about globalization. The original
scholarly research and first-person accounts of embodiment in this
volume explore the role of bodies in the flows of people, money,
commodities, and ideas across borders. From Zumba fitness classes
to martial arts to fashion blogs and the meanings of tattooing, the
contributors examine migrating body practices and ideals that
stretch across national boundaries.
This collection of original scholarly work and first-person
accounts takes globalization processes and the transnational links
these processes create as the jumping-off point for an examination
of what it means to be, have, or aspire to a beautiful body.
This collection of original scholarly work and first-person
accounts takes globalization processes and the transnational links
these processes create as the jumping-off point for an examination
of what it means to be, have, or aspire to a beautiful body.
What do the words global, transnational, national, and local mean
when talking about beauty, which is simultaneously abstract and
ephemeral, embodied and concrete? How do ideas and images of beauty
circulate in a globalizing world, and how do people's bodily
practices respond to them? Rather than simply examining how beauty
is thought about and aspired to in international settings, this
collection of original scholarly work and first-person accounts
takes globalization processes and the transnational links these
processes create as the jumping-off point for an examination of
what it means to be, have, or aspire to a beautiful body.
Globalization is often thought of as an abstract process that
happens "out there" in the world. But people are ultimately the
driving force of global change, and people have human bodies that
are absent in current conversations about globalization. The
original scholarly research and first-person accounts of embodiment
in this volume explore the role of bodies in the flows of people,
money, commodities, and ideas across borders. From Zumba fitness
classes to martial arts to fashion blogs and the meanings of
tattooing, the contributors examine migrating body practices and
ideals that stretch across national boundaries.
How do NGOs overcome the suspicion of them as "Western" agents? How
do they convince people that contrary to common perceptions, they
do not "lead women astray from Islam"? And how, in the context of
poverty, religious fundamentalism, and ethnic conflict, do NGOs
convince people that women s issues merit any attention at all?
This book uncovers the skillful maneuvering that women s NGOs have
to perform in order to survive in a hostile environment. Drawing on
interviews, participant observation, and published materials by and
about NGOs, this book analyzes the strategies used by Pakistani
women s NGOs to advance women s rights in a conservative - and
often antagonistic - environment.
How do NGOs overcome the suspicion of them as "Western" agents? How
do they convince people that contrary to common perceptions, they
do not "lead women astray from Islam"? And how, in the context of
poverty, religious fundamentalism, and ethnic conflict, do NGOs
convince people that women's issues merit any attention at all?
This book uncovers the skillful maneuvering that women's NGOs have
to perform in order to survive in a hostile environment. Drawing on
interviews, participant observation, and published materials by and
about NGOs, this book analyzes the strategies used by Pakistani
women's NGOs to advance women's rights in a conservative--and often
antagonistic--environment.
Interference alignment is a radical idea that has recently emerged
out of the capacity analysis of interference networks. In a
relatively short time, this concept has challenged much of the
conventional wisdom about the throughput limits of both wired and
wireless networks. The technique is based on the idea that if
interference or undesired signals are collectively engineered to
occupy as low a dimensional space as possible, the desired signals
can be more efficiently conveyed and recovered. Interference
Alignment: A New Look at Signal Dimensions in a Communication
Network introduces the concept via a series of simple linear
algebraic examples that very effectively convey the central idea of
interference alignment. The ideas behind the various communication
theoretic instantiations and applications of the technique are
illustrated through simple examples that come across as neat little
puzzles which enables the reader to quickly understand the topic.
Interference Alignment: A New Look at Signal Dimensions in a
Communication Network provides both a tutorial and a survey of the
state-of-art on the topic. The numerous concretely stated open
problems sprinkled throughout tee up issues for further research
for the reader. The presentation style of this tutorial is
informal, favoring broad intuition over mathematical rigor and is
written to be accessible to graduate students, researchers and
professionals working in communication, signal processing,
networking or information theory.
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